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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Scribners, 1937. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Author's first novel set in Sac Prairie (a thinly disguised Sauk City), Wisconsin, set over a three-year period in the late 1800s. "A flawed, but highly interesting book for Derleth fans." A true FIRST EDITION, first printing (with the requisite "A") from 1937, this hardcover has matte black cloth-covered boards with green design & lettering to front & spine. Condition is just Good: generally clean, with moderate tanning, heavier around all page edges & to endpapers. Binding strong & straight, rubbing to extremities, heavy at both ends of spine & all corners (with some cloth fraying & bumping). Some small tears to front board where old stickers were inexpertly removed, leaving small gouges. Some pen notations/numbers inside front cover. Missing DJ. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't… Read More

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NEW YORK NY: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. VERY GOOD+ IN A NEAR VERY GOOD D.J.. PUB MARCH 1937. FIRST EDITION. REVIEW COPY WITH SLIP LAID-IN . BOOK IS ABOUT FINE WITH CORNERS LIGHTLY BUMPED AND TYPICAL GLUE STAINING OF THE ENDPAPERS. D.J. IS WORN AT THE CORNERS WITH MODERATE LOSS, AND MODEST CHIPPING TO THE ENDS OF THE COLOR FADED SPINE PANEL, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A NICE CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY. .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First of Derleth's Sac Prairie Saga, an interlinked series of novels, short stories, essays and poems detailing life in southwest Wisconsin, taken as a microcosm of the human experience. INSCRIBED on the free endsheet: "Sincerely, August Derleth". First edition (first printing) with 'A' on copyright page. Hardcover, full black cloth, gilt lines, green titling. Light wear to book, couple of faint scuffs; later issue jacket mentioning later Sac Prairie titles shows some rubbing, light edgewear, short tear, minor creasing, scuff to front panel. Text clean; [10], 356 pages.. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.